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The Terrace Farm is a unique 
Tile Improvement of the Incan civilization in Civilization VII. It must be built on a Rough tile that does not contain a River, 
Resource, or other feature.
Strategy[]
The Terrace Farm is by far the most powerful Tile Improvement when it comes to acquiring 
Food. Additionally, since it must be placed on Rough terrain, it often results in a high Food and 
Production tile — an ideal combination for the rapid development of 
Settlements. Because of this, Terrace Farms should be built as soon as they become available, allowing 
Cities to grow quickly while also benefiting from substantial Production output.
However, the major drawback of this Improvement is its limited placement options. Despite this, even having just 2 Terrace Farms in a City can significantly accelerate its growth. If a Settlement has enough viable tiles to support multiple Terrace Farms, the benefits become extraordinary.
Since Mountains can enhance the Food yields of Terrace Farms even more, players should actively seek out regions with both Mountains and Rough terrain to establish "mountain 
Towns." These Towns can focus almost entirely on improving Rough terrain tiles with Terrace Farms while supplementing their Production with a Stonecutter. Over time, these Towns can shift their focus into Mining Towns, upgrading Production generation even more. This will essentially result in these Towns providing a huge amount of 
Gold for your empire, which allows an Incan civilization to rapidly snowball its economic and developmental progress in the Exploration Age.
Civilopedia entry[]
The Inca's ability to carve an empire on the slopes of a mountain range is nothing short of phenomenal. Where lowland empires had broad floodplains on which to plant crops, the Inca needed to create flat, stable platforms. They accomplished this by fitting together stone without mortar, making flat bases for soil and retaining walls, often with water channels to manage a stable irrigation system. With these structures – and rock's natural ability to store daytime heat and then emit it at night – the Inca began production on millions of acres of formerly inhospitable land, cultivating maize far outside of its natural growing zones and turning a mountain wilderness into a bread (or potato) basket for millions.
Gallery[]
.png "Terrace Farm in-game (Civ7).png (878 KB)")
See also[]
- Terrace Farm in other games
| Civilization VII Improvements [edit] | |
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| Unique | |
| City-State | |
| 1 Requires DLC | |